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Hymn: The true Messiah now appears (FL)

Hymnal: Psalms Hymns and Spiritual Songs

Date: 1828

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: A Campbell

First Line: The true Messiah now appears

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Meter: CM

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Hymn Number: Psalm 4

Page Number: 028, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

THE true Messiah now appears;

The types are all withdrawn:

So fly the shadows and the stars

Before the rising dawn.



No smoking sweets, nor bleeding lambs,

Nor kids, nor bullocks slain;

Incense and spice of costly names

Would all be burnt in vain.



Aaron must lay his robes away,

His mitre and his vest,

When God's own Son comes down to be

The off'ring and the priest.



He took our mortal flesh to show

The wonders of his love;

For us he paid his life below,

And prays for us above.